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and i don't know if i can do it in dialog the way peggy does, so peggy says she called ms. henley and if i don't do it right, you tell me. so she called ms. henley. she said ms. henley, you know, she introduced this book and she said we have your photo on the book. no, child you don't. oh, really? and so peggy said we have you talking to michelle obama, you know, how did that conversation go? and this apparently occurred on september 18th, 2008, when michelle was in richmond for an economic summit. and ms. henley was talking. well, child, i don't know what -- i don't know what she said to me because my knees were knocking so. i just don't remember. so peggy said, well, what did she say to you? she said well, i told her about myself and my husband, ms. henley is almost 80. and the fact that we had to get another job to support ourselves. we had jobs cleaning offices. and she and her husband were riding to work one day and he said to her, mary, mary, i can't feel my legs. my legs are numb. and he said, mary, my arms are numb. and he pulled the car over to the side of the road
and i don't know if i can do it in dialog the way peggy does, so peggy says she called ms. henley and if i don't do it right, you tell me. so she called ms. henley. she said ms. henley, you know, she introduced this book and she said we have your photo on the book. no, child you don't. oh, really? and so peggy said we have you talking to michelle obama, you know, how did that conversation go? and this apparently occurred on september 18th, 2008, when michelle was in richmond for an economic...
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>> my name is peggy jones and i have a definite opinion. i think it is not government's job to take care of us. government has taught us for years to depend on the government. look at the people in new orleans after katrina. those people had been taught by the government to wait on the government look what happens when you wait on the government. it is not government's job to take care of us. i which government would teach self reliance and independence. our country wasn't founded with the government that was here to take care of us. it is to protect us from foreign invasion so we can pursue our own happiness. it is not here to give us our happiness in any way, shape or form. certainly not with health care. i look at social security, medicare is about to go bankrupt. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: miss jones was not one of our first five folks we ran into here in arkansas. so as prompted, unedited as we found 'em, took 'em as they came, we take you the viewer to main street in little rock, for their first five. we are on main street in little r
>> my name is peggy jones and i have a definite opinion. i think it is not government's job to take care of us. government has taught us for years to depend on the government. look at the people in new orleans after katrina. those people had been taught by the government to wait on the government look what happens when you wait on the government. it is not government's job to take care of us. i which government would teach self reliance and independence. our country wasn't founded with...
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not too long ago with peggy in an an. we were worried he was trying do too many different things. >> trying to do too many -- no, it was all genius. >> no. i felt -- >> yes, you were. >> i thought health care was the thing you had to push. i did not think cap and trade and climate were things you should do in the first year of what could have been a great recession. i felt that it was a time you needed to do health care and i do think he honed his focus in on that. i think it is a good thing. >> i don't think that the people are afraid they will lose their job and lose their health care. they are afraid they are going to lose their job. that's the emphasis. it is unemployment that's, high taxes and high spending and money. it is not the secondary issues. >> i was saying it is not either/or. it is not either i'm going to lose my job or health care. people are worried about both at the same time. and over and over, i keep reading about people who have lost their jobs and, thfr, lost that your health care. >> bob, you know,
not too long ago with peggy in an an. we were worried he was trying do too many different things. >> trying to do too many -- no, it was all genius. >> no. i felt -- >> yes, you were. >> i thought health care was the thing you had to push. i did not think cap and trade and climate were things you should do in the first year of what could have been a great recession. i felt that it was a time you needed to do health care and i do think he honed his focus in on that. i...
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both peggy and i have letters in this book. and my letter is about my father and about my father's struggle throughout his life to care for a large family, all of the jobs he had come a talented man who only had a sixth great formal education but was a minister who worked very hard at a plant, everyday got up at 4 a.m. in the morning, who was a photographer, self-taught and a musician. and this was the man who took care of our family, was in merger. we're again black families are not seen, black males are not seen as taking care of their children and family but we have the obama family has a representation of batt. but that's been true in our community for ages. so we wanted to tell that story to let michelle know and others know in reading this book that there is this historical continuity within our families that goes back generations and now we see the evidence of that very, very differently portrayed in the obama family. and i want to see something that we have been trying to make sure people understood what kind of book th
both peggy and i have letters in this book. and my letter is about my father and about my father's struggle throughout his life to care for a large family, all of the jobs he had come a talented man who only had a sixth great formal education but was a minister who worked very hard at a plant, everyday got up at 4 a.m. in the morning, who was a photographer, self-taught and a musician. and this was the man who took care of our family, was in merger. we're again black families are not seen,...
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peggy noonan ronald reagan's chief speechwriter. then a terrific book about those years. "what i saw at the revolution." mel painter, a priceton university historian and author of "creating black americans: history of african-americans over the last 400 years." that was white a mouthful. peggy, when you were in the white house with ronald reagan, at the end of the first year i think people would have talked about optimism, confidence, things like that. what do you think people will say with this first year? >> i think this first year of obama, i think history will probably look back on it as an attempt to change the face of america in the world, which so far appears to be a good beginning, coupled with, i think, a serious domestic misstep with regard to focusing on certain issues that were not the great issues the american people were focused on when the great recession really sunk in. >> internationally, if i read your comment right, you've been quite supportive of his change of tone. >> yeah. i think it was needed. i think bringing a new face, literally and figuratively
peggy noonan ronald reagan's chief speechwriter. then a terrific book about those years. "what i saw at the revolution." mel painter, a priceton university historian and author of "creating black americans: history of african-americans over the last 400 years." that was white a mouthful. peggy, when you were in the white house with ronald reagan, at the end of the first year i think people would have talked about optimism, confidence, things like that. what do you think...
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this proves peggy's point, these people are tone-deaf. they have had nine months, ten months to make the argument for this bill and every r every day it's gotten worse for them. it's going to get worse for them this year because they're going to keep making the case for this bill whether they pass it or not and republicans are going to make the case as scott brown did we ought to have common sense solutions like tort reform and allieu g -- allowing people to buy insurance across state lines and for out of pocket expenses, answers like that and that's going to beat the complicated mess they've ended up with, with special interest provisions. jane: karl, i'll sure we'll see you tonight and hear more from you. thanks. >> thaw jane. jon: take a look at fresh video into the fox news room, these are some of the 54 orphans being carried into children's hospital of pittsburgh, they were at on orphanage called bresma in port awe pins, haiti, run by two sisters from the pittsburgh area. when the awful earthquake struck and they found themselves iso
this proves peggy's point, these people are tone-deaf. they have had nine months, ten months to make the argument for this bill and every r every day it's gotten worse for them. it's going to get worse for them this year because they're going to keep making the case for this bill whether they pass it or not and republicans are going to make the case as scott brown did we ought to have common sense solutions like tort reform and allieu g -- allowing people to buy insurance across state lines and...